Comments on: How To Create A Custom WordPress Page Template

By: cheap site hosting

cheap site hosting — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:47:27 +0000

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:37:45 +0000

Sorry TR but all themes are coded differently, hard for me to tell what is causing your issues.

The code I provided may not work now because it isn’t in plain text now after I changed themes, try this site for more:
http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2007/06/wordpress-tips-and-tricks-custom-templates/

By: TR

TR — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:41:32 +0000

Any clues as to what I could be doing wrong if i follow all your advice – put it in the right folder – and it doesn’t show up in the appearance editor or in the template dropdown box? i’ve tried refreshing and clearing the cache and waiting – to no avail…

By: Beloed

Beloed — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:19:47 +0000

That information is help me so well to create custom page. thank you very much.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:02:02 +0000

Let me just say ‘Thank You’!

I’ve been trying to figure out how to go to an all wordpress format for my site and could not find one single resource for creating a page ‘template’ to move my static html pages to.

Everyone else seems to confuse template with theme.

This is a godsent and saved me a long day of heartache.

Thanks a ton,
-Steve

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:41:54 +0000

Screwed it up
So now I have the home page, which is static, and which I’ve set at http://www.site.com, at
http://www.site.com/News (not site.com)

While http://www.site.com/News (which is set as the blog page) pulls up thethe home Page.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:35:32 +0000

No Paul that is a good permalink structure. The pages should not have the /news directory in them unless you are making posts instead of pages.

Also this is going beyond comments and it’s hard to fix what I can’t see.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:06:30 +0000

I have:
/%category%/%postname%/

Is that the problem? I’ve so royally screwed things up that I’m hoping you can confirm before I change something again.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:56:20 +0000

Paul, it sounds like you changed the Permalink structure. Did you?

Create 2 pages, one for the static home page with the content on it you want to show. The other page can be called Blog or in your case News, do not put any content on that page. Go to Settings, Reading and choose the pages for the static front page and the blog loop/post page.

Then yes the regular posts will be on the URL:
site.com/News/post_1 (a post)

But the pages should not have the /News directory in the URL just the posts.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:41:03 +0000

Thanks Jeff, unless I’m doing it wrong though, that adds /News/ to the URL string for every other page.

I get site.com/News/News as the home page
Yes I can change the slugs
But I also get:
site.com/News/post_1 (a post)
site.com/News/Contact_us (a page)
site.com/News/About_us (a page)

Am I missing something? That’s less than ideal